The Valencian Community has registered its historical maximum in international tourism in 2023, as shown by the surveys published this Wednesday by the INE regarding Tourist Movements on the Border (Frontur) and the Tourist Expenditure Survey (Egatur).
In this way, international tourists who visited the Valencian Community between January and November 2023 exceeded 9.7 million (9,777,942), with an increase of 20.68% year-on-year; and they spent 11,738 million euros, which represents an increase of 23.42% compared to 2022. The absolute record in foreign tourism is 9.5 million arrivals in the year before the pandemic, 2019.
Furthermore, in the month of November alone, the Valencian Community registered a total of 655,434 arrivals of foreign tourists, which represents a notable increase of 26.27% year-on-year, one of the most important increases at the national level, only surpassed by the Balearic Islands. . Thus continuing the trend of the previous month, October, where the Valencian Community led the growth of foreign tourism.
Regarding tourist spending, in the month of November international visitors spent more than 740 million euros, 22.73% more than the previous year.
The Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes, has assessed these results as “very positive, since these figures corroborate once again the relevance and positioning as a tourist destination in the international markets of the Valencian Community.”
Furthermore, Montes added that "the surveys show that this is the best international tourism data for the Valencian Community in the entire historical series", and it also represents "one of the largest year-on-year increases for the entire national group in the number of foreign tourists who have visited us out of season,” he added.
The head of Turisme states that "these results definitively confirm that the year 2023 is the year of absolute tourism recovery."
On the other hand, Nuria Montes has highlighted that with respect to the markets that send tourists to the Valencian Community, “the most important nationality continues to be the United Kingdom, with the arrival of more than 2.45 million British people from January to November last year. year, 17.9% more than in 2022.”
“France follows – he continued – with more than 1.88 million tourists until November”, also registering “the largest year-on-year increase among the main markets, with 28.5% more French arrivals in 2023 to our destiny,” Montes indicated.
Along these lines, he pointed out that “the Nordic Countries are the third international market with the most arrivals to the Community”, with 868,438 tourists until November and a year-on-year increase of 9.1%. They are followed by the Netherlands (722,689), Belgium (645,074) and Germany (637,143), all with growth in 2023 of 6.6%, 14.5% and 17.1%, respectively.
In reference only to the month of November, the international market that is growing the most in the Valencian Community is the Belgian one, which registers 45.2% more arrivals than in the same month of the previous year, and the French one, which increases by 44.3%. %. The British exceeded 193,000 arrivals with an increase of 33.2% year-on-year.
